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Chital machher muitha

Chital machher muitha

This is the flesh of clown knife fish scooped ,separated from bones and made dumplings by boiling in water. and after that making a curry.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 3
Author indrani

Ingredients

Ingredients( for fish dumplings)

  • Fish flesh of Chital 400 gms
  • Potato 1 boiled with a little salt
  • Coriander leaves 1/3 rd cup finely chopped
  • Green chilies 3 to 4 finely chopped
  • Ginger garlic paste 2 tbsp
  • Lemon juice 2 tbsp
  • Salt as per taste
  • Red chilly powder 1/2 tbsp

Ingredients for curry

  • 4 to 5 cloves
  • 3 to 4 cardamom
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 1 onion
  • A handful coriander leaves
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder

Instructions

Preparation for fish dumpling

  1. Scoop the fish  flesh without bones from the chital fish with a spoon.
  2. Mash the boiled potato .
  3. Mix all the above ingredients.
  4. Make small balls from the above mixture
  5. Add the balls in boiling water and boil them for 5 to 7 minutes,until the balls start floating on top.
  6. You can now bake the balls in preheated oven at 170 degrees for 5 minutes or deep fry them.
  7. You can serve them hot with Coriander chutney or ketchup.
  8. Most people prepare a gravy and add these fried balls to make a delicious curry.But I like them both ways.This time I enjoyed them as starters.
  9. One cannot perform a similar preparation with any other kind of fish because there are no binding material used here.

Method for preparing curry

  1. Heat the oil
  2. Add bay leaves
  3. Add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon stick
  4. fry ginger paste
  5. ground onion and coriander leaves.
  6. Add this in the oil
  7. saute this mixture
  8. Add the spices and fry till oil starts separating.
  9. Add 1/2 cup of water and salt.
  10. cook for 2 to 3 minutes covered .
  11. Add green chillies.
  12. Add the fish dumplings and saute.
  13. Take off from the oven.

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